MTT January mistakes: Post your 3 biggest ones.

[etojim]

(BTW, these don't include the trips to the limit/cash games, BJ table or PWI*)

1. Catching "Fancy Poker Syndrome", trying to make unnecessary plays, bluffs, esp. as big stack.

2. Not laying down hands when it looks like you’re beat (TPTK with 3 to flush/straight on board)

3. Not playing seemingly marginal hands or calling bets, despite appropriate odds (esp. all-in's from short stacks that won't cripple you). This situation occurs most often late in tourneys due to large blinds.

Sloutions:
1. After you attain a big stack, slow down a bit and just play good, solid poker.

2. Don't fall in love with a hand when all the evidence tells you beaten, which is a tough thing to do sometimes. Sometimes requires just as much testosterone to lay down a hand as it does to make a tough call.

3. Be constantly aware of pot odds/implied odds and the relationship to your hand, before automatically folding seemingly marginal hands in position pre-flop or hands that may not be best post-flop, but could improve to best if they hit.


* Playing While Intoxicated